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Ex-CIA software engineer sentenced to 40 years for giving secrets to WikiLeaks
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Yeah. Nothing precludes Russia from simply being the enemy of the US and "the enemy of my enemy is my friend". Of course they'd love Snowden. Doesn't mean he was a Russian plant from the get go. That's just conspiracy theory nonsense. I'll give OP that Russia is probably doing many shady things. But let's not turn everything that favors them into some grand, all-enconpassing, conspiracy. That's how you start to become a whack job. Plenty of things are just happenstance.
It doesn't take much ink to connect these dots. It would be woefully naive if not daft to suggest this is some McCarthy hysteria after all that has been exposed in the last decade. Of all the places Snowden flees to and the complete shift to a Kremlin mouthpiece Greenwald has become, it absolutely is worthy of suspicion.
Where would you rather he have run to? As it is, Russia nearly extradited him back. Russia. The list of even unfriendlier places is short and all of them are truly bad places to be, like North Korea or Iran.
A fair point, though I do wonder if someone is willing to live in exile in Russia of all places, I wonder why they might not take the Ellsberg approach. Just a strange notion to protest an act of your own government, then flee to an objectively more corrupt police state and attain citizenship no less. Either way I won't die on the hill to claim he sold out for Russia versus just being their useful pawn. And of course it doesn't change the fact that what was exposed needed to be.